The Cleveland Browns got a record-setting 497-yard, four-touchdown, jaw-dropping, career game on Monday night from Jameis Winston — and still lost.

Even the decision in Week 7, to demote Winston to emergency quarterback and use Dorian Thompson-Robinson as the backup, proved costly after Watson was lost to an Achilles injury. The Browns certainly could have exploited a porous Bengals defense to win a game they lost, 21-14.

Jameis Winston very much looked like the quarterback who threw for 5,100 yards, 33 touchdowns, but 31 interceptions in his last season as a full-time starting quarterback. But for the bridging